Quotes by Thoughtful There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people Ray Dalio thoughtfullifetwo To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone to look at and everyone to work through. Second, they need to have thoughtful disagreement, by which there are quality exchanges, in which there's open mindedness and the realization that no one has all the right answers. And you can work through that and get to better answers because good collective decision making is better than any individual decision making. And third, you have to have ways of getting past the disagreements if they remain. Ray Dalio thoughtfuldecisionpast In order to get past disagreements, you just can't have one person with power decide. In other words, so just because I'm a boss, it would be terrible if I then said, "Okay, we're gonna go do this." That's why, after that thoughtful disagreement, there has to be a process of an idea meritocracy. That means okay, now you have to vote, not that the decision resides with power. And then you vote and move beyond it. Ray Dalio thoughtfulmeanmoving Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you. Ray Dalio thoughtfulmeditationchallenges I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future. Ray Dalio thoughtfulwaythinking Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. Ralph Waldo Emerson thoughtfulfirststhinking How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. Richard Dawkins thoughtfulbornmatter Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven. Richard Dawkins thoughtfulrealpeople If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. Richard Lugar thoughtfuloddsreading In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. Ralph Waldo Emerson deep-lifethoughtfuldeep-thought God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God. Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw thoughtfulatheistbelieve From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. Robert Aris Willmott thoughtfulreadingbook Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. Robert Breault thoughtfuladdictionkindness Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life. Robert C. Solomon thoughtfullove-lifespiritual Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic] Robert C. Solomon thoughtfulinsightfullife If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems. Robert Cheeke bodybuildingthoughtfulmotivational There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. Robert Creeley thoughtfulintimatethinking The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson thoughtfullyingart By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision. Ralph Waldo Emerson thoughtfulagreementthinking Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. Ralph Waldo Emerson thoughtfulmindthinking«2021222324252627282930»
